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Product Description: Cities throughout the United States are experiencing a dramatic rise in the number of homeless persons. Who are the homeless? How many homeless persons are there in America? What policies and programs for the homeless have and should be implemented at the federal, state and local levels? This collection of articles, reports and case studies brings together a vari­ety of perspectives to help answer these questions...read more

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9780882851129 | Rutgers Univ Center for Urban, June 1, 1986, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Cities throughout the United States are experiencing a dramatic rise in the number of homeless persons.

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9788441524699 | Pap/cdr edition (Anaya Multimedia-Anaya Interactiva, September 5, 2008), cover price $60.95

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Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the latest information on security issues, a serious introduction to hacking describes the techniques of computer hacking, covering such topics as stack-based overflows, format string exploits, network security, cryptographic attacks, and shellcode, among others, and including a CD-ROM containing a Linux programming environment. Original. (Intermediate)

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9781593271442 | 2 pap/cdr edition (No Starch Pr, December 1, 2007), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the latest information on security issues, a serious introduction to hacking describes the techniques of computer hacking, covering such topics as stack-based overflows, format string exploits, network security, cryptographic attacks, and shellcode, among others, and including a CD-ROM containing a Linux programming environment.
9781593270070 | No Starch Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Describes the techniques of computer hacking, covering such topics as stack-based overflows, format string exploits, and shellcode.

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Looks at marine life and the underwater land structures that support it.

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9780816048748 | Revised edition (Facts on File, December 1, 2002), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Looks at marine life and the underwater land structures that support it.

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9780816050772 | Revised edition (Facts on File, February 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looks at marine life and the underwater land structures that support it.

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An examination of meteorites, asteroids, and comets looks at the origin of the solar system, the formation of Earth, meteorite impacts throughout history and their effects, cosmic collisions, and extinction of species.

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9780816048731 | Facts on File, December 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: An examination of meteorites, asteroids, and comets looks at the origin of the solar system, the formation of Earth, meteorite impacts throughout history and their effects, cosmic collisions, and extinction of species.

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9780816050765 | Facts on File, February 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An examination of meteorites, asteroids, and comets looks at the origin of the solar system, the formation of Earth, meteorite impacts throughout history and their effects, cosmic collisions, and extinction of species.

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Describes the causes and consequences of environmental change on the Earth. (view table of contents)

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9780816047277 | Facts on File, July 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Describes the causes and consequences of environmental change on the Earth.

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Discusses how Earth was formed and its development from the Precambrian era through the Quaternary period, covering both the geological changes and the life forms that existed during different time periods. (view table of contents)

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9780816047260 | Facts on File, July 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Discusses how Earth was formed and its development from the Precambrian era through the Quaternary period, covering both the geological changes and the life forms that existed during different time periods.

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Covers earthquakes, floods, dust storms, meteor showers, volcanoes, landslides, glaciation, and mass extinctions. (view table of contents)

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9780816049042 | Revised edition (Checkmark Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Covers earthquakes, floods, dust storms, meteor showers, volcanoes, landslides, glaciation, and mass extinctions.

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Looks at the earth's crust, sedimentary strata, erosion, geologic mapping, fossil beds, folds and faults, volcanoes, and glaciers (view table of contents)

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9780735102088 | Replica Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Looks at the earth's crust, sedimentary strata, erosion, geologic mapping, fossil beds, folds and faults, volcanoes, and glaciers
9780816043286 | Revised edition (Facts on File, July 1, 2001), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Looks at the earth's crust, sedimentary strata, erosion, geologic mapping, fossil beds, folds and faults, volcanoes, and glaciers.

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9780816045907 | Revised edition (Checkmark Books, July 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looks at the earth's crust, sedimentary strata, erosion, geologic mapping, fossil beds, folds and faults, volcanoes, and glaciers.

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Covers earthquakes, floods, dust storms, meteor showers, volcanoes, landslides, glaciation, and mass extinctions. (view table of contents)
By Jon Erickson and Alexander E. Gates (foreword by)

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9780816045167 | 2 revised edition (Facts on File, October 1, 2001), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Covers earthquakes, floods, dust storms, meteor showers, volcanoes, landslides, glaciation, and mass extinctions.

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Outlines the processes and history of evolution, surveying the several mass extinctions of species, speculating on their causes, and explaining their impact on subsequent evolution.

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9780816043378 | Facts on File, October 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Outlines the processes and history of evolution, surveying the several mass extinctions of species, speculating on their causes, and explaining their impact on subsequent evolution.

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9780816049035 | Checkmark Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Outlines the processes and history of evolution, surveying the several mass extinctions of species, speculating on their causes, and explaining their impact on subsequent evolution.

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Explains the theory of continental drift and shows how this activity has affected the Earth's geological make-up (view table of contents)

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9780735102002 | Replica Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explains the theory of continental drift and shows how this activity has affected the Earth's geological make-up
9780816043279 | 2 revised edition (Facts on File, May 1, 2001), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Explains the theory of continental drift and shows how this activity has affected the Earth's geological composition.
9780816025886 | Facts on File, May 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explains the theory of continental drift and shows how this activity has affected the Earth's geological make-up

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9780816045891 | Revised edition (Checkmark Books, July 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explains the theory of continental drift and shows how this activity has affected the Earth's geological composition.

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Discusses the Earth's early history, marine and terrestrial fossils, crystals and minerals, rock types, and gems and precious metals. (view table of contents)

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9780816042364, titled "An Introduction to Fossils and Minerals: Seeking Clues to the Earth's Past" | Revised edition (Facts on File, October 1, 2000), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Discusses the Earth's early history, marine and terrestrial fossils, crystals and minerals, rock types, and gems and precious metals.
9780816025879, titled "An Introduction to Fossils and Minerals: Seeking Clues to the Earth's Past" | Facts on File, May 1, 1992, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Discusses the Earth's early history, marine and terrestrial fossils, crystals and minerals, rock types, and gems and precious metals

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9780816042371, titled "An Introduction to Fossils and Minerals: Seeking Clues to the Earth's Past" | Revised edition (Checkmark Books, July 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discusses the Earth's early history, marine and terrestrial fossils, crystals and minerals, rock types, and gems and precious metals.

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Describes how the surface of the Earth is constantly changing through geologic forces, including plate tectonics, erosion, and catastrophic collapse, and discusses how different landscapes are carved by weathering agents. (view table of contents)

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9780816045884 | Checkmark Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes how the surface of the Earth is constantly changing through geologic forces, including plate tectonics, erosion, and catastrophic collapse, and discusses how different landscapes are carved by weathering agents.

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Describes how the surface of the Earth is constantly changing through geologic forces, including plate tectonics, erosion, and catastrophic collapse, and discusses how different landscapes are carved by weathering agents. (view table of contents)

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9780816042760 | Facts on File, November 1, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Describes how the surface of the Earth is constantly changing through geologic forces, including plate tectonics, erosion, and catastrophic collapse, and discusses how different landscapes are carved by weathering agents.

The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

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9780606255394, titled "Little Match Girl" | Demco Media, December 1, 1999, cover price $15.85 | also contains The Little Match Girl, The Little Match Girl, The Little Match Girl, The Little Match Girl, The Little Match Girl | About this edition: The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

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9780816025862 | Facts on File, June 1, 1996, cover price $147.25
9780816044702 | Facts on File, June 1, 1996, cover price $126.00

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Describes the major historical ice ages, explains their effect on the Earth's surface, and looks at glaciers and glacial deposits

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9780816033553 | Facts on File, February 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the major historical ice ages, explains their effect on the Earth's surface, and looks at glaciers and glacial deposits

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Looks at marine life and the underwater land structures that support it

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9780816033546 | Facts on File, January 1, 1996, cover price $29.65 | About this edition: Looks at marine life and the underwater land structures that support it

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Traces the development of life on earth as shown through the fossil record

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9780816031313 | Facts on File, August 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of life on earth as shown through the fossil record

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Product Description: The Fate of the Object traces the historical shift in focus from the "difficult" essential object of modernist theater, art, and poetry to its transformation as a sign in a postmodern field of signs. In modern art, the central object had been the abstract painting; in theater, the body of the actor; in poetry, the sonic, visual and grammatical elements of the poem...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780472106134 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The Fate of the Object traces the historical shift in focus from the "difficult" essential object of modernist theater, art, and poetry to its transformation as a sign in a postmodern field of signs.

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Examines the effects of population growth on the environment, discussing global pollution, resource depletion, and habitat destruction and their impact on the earth's natural cycles

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9780816031306 | Facts on File, December 1, 1994, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Examines the effects of population growth on the environment, discussing global pollution, resource depletion, and habitat destruction and their impact on the earth's natural cycles

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Covers earthquakes, floods, dust storms, meteor showers, volcanoes, landslides, galciation, and mass extinctions

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9780816029495 | Facts on File, July 1, 1994, cover price $29.65 | About this edition: Covers earthquakes, floods, dust storms, meteor showers, volcanoes, landslides, galciation, and mass extinctions

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Looks at the earth's crust, sedimentary strata, erosion, geologic mapping, fossil beds, folds and faults, volcanoes, and glaciers

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9780816025893, titled "Rock Formations and Unusual Geological Structures: Exploring the Earth's Surface" | Facts on File, September 1, 1993, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Looks at the earth's crust, sedimentary strata, erosion, geologic mapping, fossil beds, folds and faults, volcanoes, and glaciers

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Discusses impact craters, caves, caverns, canyons, valleys, basins, volcanic rifts, earthquake faults, ground failures, calderas, fissures, potholes, sinkholes, and crater lakes

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9780816025909 | Facts on File, June 1, 1993, cover price $29.65 | About this edition: Discusses impact craters, caves, caverns, canyons, valleys, basins, volcanic rifts, earthquake faults, ground failures, calderas, fissures, potholes, sinkholes, and crater lakes

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